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authorXavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>2008-05-18 21:44:15 +0200
committerXavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>2008-05-18 21:44:15 +0200
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minor details in associations.rb
-rw-r--r--activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
index 902deeb35c..ce3d273a42 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
#
# Consider the following loop using the class above:
#
- # for post in Post.find(:all)
+ # for post in Post.all
# puts "Post: " + post.title
# puts "Written by: " + post.author.name
# puts "Last comment on: " + post.comments.first.created_on
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
# for post in Post.find(:all, :include => [ :author, :comments ])
#
# This will load all comments with a single query. This reduces the total number of queries to 3. More generally the number of queries
- # will be 1 plus the number of associations named (except if some of the associations are polymorphic belongs_to - see below).
+ # will be 1 plus the number of associations named (except if some of the associations are polymorphic +belongs_to+ - see below).
#
# To include a deep hierarchy of associations, use a hash:
#
@@ -488,13 +488,13 @@ module ActiveRecord
#
# Post.find(:all, :include => [ :author, :comments ], :conditions => ['comments.approved = ?', true])
#
- # will result in a single sql query with joins along the lines of: <tt>LEFT OUTER JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = posts.id</tt> and
+ # will result in a single SQL query with joins along the lines of: <tt>LEFT OUTER JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = posts.id</tt> and
# <tt>LEFT OUTER JOIN authors ON authors.id = posts.author_id</tt>. Note that using conditions like this can have unintended consequences.
- # In the above example posts with no approved comments are not returned at all, because the conditions apply to the sql statement as a whole
+ # In the above example posts with no approved comments are not returned at all, because the conditions apply to the SQL statement as a whole
# and not just to the association. You must disambiguate column references for this fallback to happen, for example
# <tt>:order => "author.name DESC"</tt> will work but <tt>:order => "name DESC"</tt> will not.
#
- # If you do want eagerload only some members of an association it is usually more natural to :include an association
+ # If you do want eagerload only some members of an association it is usually more natural to <tt>:include</tt> an association
# which has conditions defined on it:
#
# class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
#
# Post.find(:all, :include => :approved_comments)
#
- # will load posts and eager load the approved_comments association, which contains only those comments that have been approved.
+ # will load posts and eager load the +approved_comments+ association, which contains only those comments that have been approved.
#
# When eager loaded, conditions are interpolated in the context of the model class, not the model instance. Conditions are lazily interpolated
# before the actual model exists.